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At Aunty's House

By James Whitcomb Riley

Topics: classic

One time, when we'z at Aunty's house -      'Way in the country! - where     They's ist but woods - an' pigs, an' cows -      An' all's out-doors an' air! -     An' orchurd-swing; an' churry-trees -     An' churries in 'em! - Yes, an' these -     Here red-head birds steals all they please,      An' tetch 'em ef you dare! -     W'y, wunst, one time, when we wuz there,      We et out on the porch!     Wite where the cellar-door wuz shut      The table wuz; an' I     Let Aunty set by me an' cut      My vittuls up - an' pie.     'Tuz awful funny! - I could see     The red-heads in the churry-tree;     An' bee-hives, where you got to be      So keerful, goin' by; -     An' "Comp'ny" there an' all! - an' we -      We et out on the porch!     An' I ist et p'surves an' things      'At Ma don't 'low me to -     An' chickun-gizzurds - (don't like wings      Like Parunts does! do you?)     An' all the time, the wind blowed there,     An' I could feel it in my hair,     An' ist smell clover ever'where! -      An' a' old red-head flew     Purt' nigh wite over my high-chair,      When we et on the porch!

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About James Whitcomb Riley

James Whitcomb Riley (1849–1916) was an American poet known as the "Hoosier Poet." His dialect poems—including "Little Orphant Annie" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin"—celebrate rural Indiana life and childhood nostalgia.

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